Sentence examples for irrational consumption from inspiring English sources
Tencent will also place caps on the amount of money that underage users can spend on the platform, so as to rein in "minors' irrational consumption".
Regardless of the consumption demands of "potlatch"1 or of the "leisure class" (Veblen 1964: 75 95) or rational or irrational consumption patterns (Bell 2010: 119, 194, 280),2 consumption trends emerge in the process of social stratification.
The cost of inappropriate antibiotic use was twice as much for patients who were treated appropriately and highlights irrational antibiotic consumption at the hospital, prompting protocols for rational antibiotic prescribing and utilization review.
The famous Les Halles de Paul Bocuse is a shopping mall of high-end products, incomprehensible to a non-Lyonnais unless you are an anthropologist studying the Lyonnais psyche as manifest in its irrational habits of food consumption.
Mauss argued that apparently irrational forms of economic consumption made sense when they were properly understood, as modes of social competition regulated by strict and universal rules of reciprocity.
The fear of 'screen time' is so deeply ingrained in our collective imagination that an irrational opposition between outdoor play and media consumption is taken for granted.
The fear of screen time is so deeply ingrained in our collective imagination that an irrational opposition between outdoor play and media consumption is taken for granted.
When health authorities set national targets for consumption of locally produced medicines, they may actually indirectly trigger irrational prescription and/or decreased financial access.
Conversely, if the consumption space has low dimension relative to the number of observations, then there exist both rational and irrational preference relations that can never be revealed by choices.
